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The Women's National Basketball Association has a problem it is struggling to solve. This reason, though, is the same reason the problem exists in the first place.
It started when Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said publicly this summer what most WNBA players privately believe — that biological men should not compete in women's sports. The backlash was immediate — rallies even erupted outside Fever games (both supporting and opposing her). A Seattle Storm co-owner was suspended five games after screaming obscenities at two teenage girls in the crowd for wearing XX XY T-shirts and holding signs in support of Cunningham.
So, the WNBA launched a task force to address this growing controversy. They were quickly able to resolve… absolutely nothing. No eligibility rules were established, no definition of the “W” in WNBA was offered. The league denounced what it called bad-faith efforts to demean and marginalize others. Apparently that’s how the WNBA describes anyone asking a simple question about their sport’s basic eligibility requirements.
What’s remarkable is that the WNBA's own 2026 collective bargaining agreement plainly states that only players who are women are eligible to play in the league. But that agreement does not define what a woman is. That is the big question facing all of the left today — what is a woman? Apparently, the league’s leadership simply cannot bring itself to answer it.
Two former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, announced they identify as women and declared themselves eligible for the 2027 WNBA draft. This stunt shouldn’t be surprising. This is the logical end of more than a decade of insisting biology is totally irrelevant to athletic competition. If not these two players, someone would have taken this ambiguity to its conclusion.
It’s time for the WNBA to decide what it stands for: fairness in women's sports, or not. It’s time they adopted a policy, as women’s tennis has done, that establishes only biological women can play. Stop subjecting players and fans to their viewpoint discrimination and state the simple biological truth.
The answer to what a woman is has not changed, and it was never complicated to begin with. Apparently, though, it’s just too hard for the WNBA to figure out.
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